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In an unsettling warning prompted by the conflict in Ukraine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock on Tuesday to the closest point to midnight it has ever been.

The world is now 90 seconds from a worldwide calamity, which is the closest it has ever been.

The conflict in Ukraine’s growing hazards was the primary driver of the action.

The Bulletin’s Science and Security Board (SASB) sets the Doomsday Clock each year as a leading indicator of the world’s susceptibility to a global catastrophe by man-made technology.

A “limited group of globally known leaders with a specific focus on nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technology,” according to the SASB’s mission statement.

The group was established in 1945 by eminent theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and the numerous University of Chicago scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project to create the first atomic weapons.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists established the Doomsday Clock two years later, employing the apocalyptic imagery of midnight and the modern vernacular of nuclear detonation, countdown to zero, to present risks to humanity and the earth.

The Bulletin underscored how difficult the situation is in Ukraine, where the conflict will enter its second year at the end of February and neither side is willing to give ground.

Particularly menacing has been Russia, whose president Vladimir Putin has often raised the possibility of using nuclear weapons.

According to the Bulletin, “the likelihood that the dispute could spiral out of anyone’s control remains high.”

It made reference to events surrounding the Ukrainian nuclear reactors Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia, the former of which was the scene of a catastrophic nuclear catastrophe in 1986.

The latter is regarded as one of the top ten largest nuclear power plants in the world and the largest in Europe. Currently, Russia is in charge of it.

According to the Bulletin, US policymakers should “leave the door open to principal engagement with Moscow that lessens the dangerous surge in nuclear risk the war has produced.”

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